IYSSE at University of California Berkeley

Nearly 100 people listen to David North speak at UC Berkeley on the Russian Revolution

The UC Berkeley IYSSE has been a critical part of campus political life since its founding in 2012, turning students and youth towards the working class through historical study and regular workplace interventions.

We have been the only voice on campus opposed to war, inequality and capitalism. In 2013, we led a rally against US intervention in Syria, drawing the support of the most serious elements of the student body. We are the only political group on campus defending the right to free speech, as well as all other democratic rights that are under relentless attack under the deepening crisis of capitalism.

The UC Berkeley IYSSE treats matters of history and theory with the utmost seriousness, fighting to win over the healthiest layers of students through a Marxist analysis of history. In the Fall 2013 semester, we taught the Foundations of Classical Marxism DeCal, in which we read and discussed the classics of Marxism, including the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.

Every semester, there has been at least one major event hosted by the UC Berkeley IYSSE, including lectures by David North, Chairman of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) International Editorial Board, WSWSArts Editor David Walsh, Socialist Equality Party (SEP) presidential candidate Jerry White, and SEP National Secretary Joseph Kishore.